About 15 minutes from downtown Victoria on Esquimalt Harbor, this park is a wonderful place for a picnic lunch and a hike. (There are picnic tables on the grounds.) A short hiking trail takes you through the woods to a machine-gun post and searchlight emplacements from the 1890s. The Fisgard Lighthouse resides along the shore. In the park you'll see plants and animals found nowhere else in Canada. Daily 10 am-5:30 pm; 9 am-4:30 pm November-February. Can$3.95 adults. 603 Fort Rodd Hill Road, Victoria. Phone 250-478-5849. http://www.pc.gc.ca/roddhill.
